News

Seven subjects at the University of Waterloo rank among the top 100 universities in the world, according to results published this week.

The rankings, published today by U.K. firm Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), put UWaterloo 24th in the world in computer science and also 24th in the world in mathematics.

“We attract outstanding students and faculty members from around the world and I am delighted that their hard work is reflected in these results," says Ian Goulden, Dean of Mathematics.

St. Jerome’s University and the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Mathematics are pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement that will provide for the consolidation of mathematics at the University of Waterloo. This agreement is effective May 1, 2014. As part of this agreement the faculty members in mathematics at St. Jerome's will join their colleagues in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo.

As the five-year partnership between Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC) and Youth Care Foundation (YCF) winds up, YCF has recently opened a new secondary school near Serekunda in The Gambia. Students from grades 9-12 in this West African community will now have more options to continue their studies.

The Big E and Special K contests 2013 (PDF) were held on Saturday November 9. These are mathematics contests for undergraduate University of Waterloo students.

The Special K contest is for first year students and the Big E contest 
is for upper year students. Both contests consist of six problems, and complete written solutions are required.

The winners of the Big E contest were:

Mike Miniou joined our Faculty recently as the Mathematics liaison and outreach officer. In this new role, he has been visiting high schools and talking to students about "Mathematics in the real world". His visits to two of the schools are shared here.

Mathematics: The key to the universe

By Sasha (grade 8), St. Michaels University School

Congratulations to today's graduates!

Notes from the University of Waterloo media release and Daily Bulletin:

Applied Math Professor Chris Bauch and co-author Alison Galvani of the Yale School of Public Health recently published "Social factors in epidemiology" in Science.

They found that disease control efforts can be improved using mathematical modelling to understand the interplay between social and biological contagions.